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Regina doctor John Thiel disagrees with B.C. ovarian cancer experts who recommend removing Fallopian tubes to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. There just isn’t enough scientific evidence to justify such a procedure, he contends. “I’m not an old crock. I love innovations. But I also believe in evidence-based medicine,” he says.

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After losing her mother and grandmother to ovarian cancer, 39-year-old Justine Greene took what she and her doctors consider fate-altering, pre-emptive action — she had her Fallopian tubes removed. The executive director of Big Sisters was emboldened by the BC Cancer Agency pronouncement that the majority of high-grade serous carcinomas — the most common and deadliest type of ovarian cancer — actually originates in the tubes, not the ovaries.

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